Last week I had the pleasure being one of the speakers at DevReach. I like to thank everybody who attended my talk - “Creating change from within”. I had a full room (the smaller theater) and got good feedback (and questions) from the attendees. It was a fun, well organized convention and I met … Continue reading DevReach 2012 session
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I’m going to DevReach
I’m so excited - I’ll be going to DevReach 2012 – as a speaker! One of my sessions have been selected for DevReach. On the 4th of October at exactly 13:45 I’ll be speaking about how to facilitate change in your dev team. So if you’re coming to DevReach don’t forget to come by … Continue reading I’m going to DevReach
SCISR Meeting with Corey Haines
Today I attended a meeting of the Software Craftsmanship in Israel group with Corey Haines. Corey gave a talk about agile practices and how to decide which to choose. The talk went something like this: Our objective is to reduce the time between doing something and doing the right thing and the time between doing … Continue reading SCISR Meeting with Corey Haines
The evolution of a task board
I’d like to tell you a story about how we manage tasks in my team… Once upon a time (about a year and a half ago) I’ve started working in a new place. Since I’ve came from a company with very strong agile practice I wanted my new work place to be as agile as … Continue reading The evolution of a task board
TDD vs. BDD or why can’t we all just get along?
I was listening to another good Hanselminuets podcast - Understanding BDD and NSpec with Matt Florence and Amir Rajan. As always it was a good an informative show. Towards the end of the show one of the interviewees (I think it was Amir) explained why BDD is much better than TDD… by djclear904 … Continue reading TDD vs. BDD or why can’t we all just get along?
Agile toolkit session at ILTAM
Today I had the pleasure I had a session at ILTAM where I talked about the tools used in an agile software development. It was a mixed crowd of software developers, testers, team leads, project managers (and change) and it was fun trying to make the topic relevant to all of the audience at the … Continue reading Agile toolkit session at ILTAM
Essence of agile
Recently I had the pleasure to meet two developers with very different “styles” of software development. The first have never heard of SCRUM and never practiced any of the agile methodologies while the second is a certified SCRUM master and has used SCRUM to manage his team. Both were given a problem to solve in … Continue reading Essence of agile
The 7 levels of continuous integration
I’ve noticed that when other developers talk about “continuous integration” they do not always mean the same thing. The following is an outline of the seven stages of continuous integration based solely on my own experience:No Server, no automation - no problemsHave nightly build that run each day – at least we know that the … Continue reading The 7 levels of continuous integration
QA and Development in Agile 2011
This Thursday (May19th) I’ll take part in a Panel at the “QA and development Agile” conference.I’ve been asked to talk about unit testing, TDD, SCRUM and anything else agile – topics that you should be familiar with if you’ve been reading this blog.There would be developer and QA tracks with very interesting sessions two of … Continue reading QA and Development in Agile 2011
Kanban workshop for leader/managers–Part II
a week ago (give or take a day) I attended a Kanban workshop by Agile consultant company, AgileSparks– the following is my impressions from that day along with my thoughts on the subject: In the 2nd part of the day we continued the workshop at full speed – the next few hours were devoted to … Continue reading Kanban workshop for leader/managers–Part II
Helper Code 